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From Giant Freshwater Stingray to the Saola, one of the rarest animals on earth, Lao PDR is home to an abundance of unique species. 

Malaga, 28 January 2025 (IUCN) - More than 50 experts from Andorra, Spain, France and Portugal met in Madrid for three days to develop a transnational conservation plan and define more urgent measures to prevent the extinction of this unique freshwater species. 

World Wetlands Day is celebrated annually on 2 February. To celebrate this year’s theme of “protecting wetlands for our common future,” the Indo-Burma Ramsar Regional Initiative (IBRRI), hosted by the IUCN Asia Regional Office, is highlighting some of the work its…

Gland, Switzerland, 8 January 2025 (IUCN) – The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of the world’s freshwater fish, dragonfly, damselfly, crab, crayfish and shrimp species are at high risk of extinction…

The Government of Rwanda through the Ministry of Environment, the Rwanda Water Resources Board (RWB) in partnership with 2030 Water Resources Group hosted by the World Bank, launched the Inter-Sectoral Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) for Water Resources Management in Rwanda.

The Iberian desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semi-aquatic mammal, exclusive to the Iberian Peninsula, which is classified as Endangered according to the IUCN Red List of…

Abu Dhabi, 4 October 2024 (IUCN SSC) – The Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) will be hosting the Fifth SSC Leaders’ Meeting in Abu Dhabi, between 25 and 28 October 2024…

As the world is developing an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (a global plastics treaty), work between formal negotiating sessions is ongoing.

This is Legal Brief 4: IUCN WCEL legal brief INC Intersessional Expert Group 2 Criteria and Non-Criteria Approaches